Proud to say Georgia

Since 1851, 25 governors of Georgia have been graduates of Georgia. At least 17 UGA alumni are presidents or provosts of colleges and universities in the U.S. Nine UGA graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize. Four UGA alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Undergraduate Admissions

The University of Georgia is a national leader among public universities in the numbers of major scholarships earned by our students. We have had eight Rhodes Scholars since 1995. In the same period, our students have won 49 Goldwater Scholarships. UGA students have earned 12 Truman Scholarships since 1995, and each year we have multiple recipients of major national scholarships.

Graduate Admissions

Continuing Education

Whether you are looking for personal improvement, seeking a credential or wanting to change your career path, the University of Georgia Center for Continuing
Education delivers a variety of educational programs to meet your learning needs.

International Students

The University of Georgia has approximately 180 International Cooperative Agreements (ICAs) in over 50 countries. These agreements allow for the formal
development of activities such as faculty and student exchanges, collaborative research, seminars and workshops, and/or service programs.

Research at UGA

The Office of the Vice President for Research encourages and supports UGA research, scholarship and creative activities by assisting with the recruitment of research-intensive faculty, and providing infrastructure for sponsored research. We help to move UGA innovations into the marketplace, encourage research-based economic development, and ensure responsible conduct in research.

Centers & Institutes

UGA research addresses real-life problems, including the grand challenges associated with water, food, fuel, environment and health. It also enriches the soul through the arts, humanities and social sciences. OVPR's Interdisciplinary centers, institutes and research initiatives provide enhanced interactions and focus on advanced areas of research.

Student and Postdoctoral Research

Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are critical to the successful pursuit of research and scholarship at the University of Georgia. They contribute in multiple ways to research and scholarship in the physical, life and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanities.

PSO Units

For more than 80 years, PSO has led the University in bringing its resources to each of Georgia’s 159 counties, 500+ cities, and around the world, serving more than 110,000 individuals annually to improve the quality of life in Georgia and beyond.

Service-Learning

The University of Georgia has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for its institutional commitment to community engagement through teaching, research, and public service with the Community Engagement Classification. UGA was one of only 115 colleges and universities to achieve this elective classification in 2010 and joined the ranks of only 311 institutions nationally.

Campus Life

Student Affairs is a primary point of contact for students through more than 600 registered student organizations; student programming groups; social
fraternities and sororities; student leadership programs and volunteer services; and international and multicultural programs.

Health & Recreation

The 440,000-square-foot Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities is one of the largest and most comprehensive fitness/exercise facilities for students and faculty in the country.

Get Involved

In 2000, UGA was the first university in the nation to organize a collegiate Relay For Life. It raised more than $115,000. UGA Relay now has over 3,200 student volunteers and has raised more than $2.3 million, benefiting The American Cancer Society.

Academic Units

Students and faculty pursue arts studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The Special Collections Libraries provide access to materials related to the history and culture of Georgia, while the Willson Center and ICE promote Interdisciplinary inquiry and creative activity in the arts.

Hope Carrell

For Hope Carrell, baton twirling was not just a passing phase of girlhood. She has been competing in baton twirling since age three, and today she is the feature twirler in UGA’s Redcoat Marching Band. In July 2005, she competed at the National Baton Twirling Championships held at Notre Dame University. She captured her nineteenth national title, winning the national Two Baton Championship. This qualified her to represent the U.S.A. at the World Championships, which is held every three years and is the equivalent of the Olympics for baton twirlers. Carrell qualified for her first Worlds held in Italy when she was ten years old and has qualified for each subsequent Worlds in England, France, and in April 2006, Holland. Having already won two gold medals and one silver medal at the previous Worlds, she won another silver medal for the U.S.A. this year. She is pursuing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously and plans to graduate in May 2007 after four years of study at UGA. She will become a Certified Public Accountant for a large firm after graduation.

Expected graduation:

May 2007

Degree objective:

Master of Accountancy and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting

University highlights, achievements and awards:

I earned the Ramsey Honors Scholarship, Courts International Scholarship, Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, Elks National Foundation Scholarship, and Feature Twirler Scholarship. I am a UGA Presidential Scholar and am in the UGA Honors Program. As mentioned before, I am the Redcoat Marching Band feature twirler. I am an alumna and former treasurer of Phi Sigma Pi, a national co-ed honor fraternity, as well as a member of Beta Alpha Psi, an accounting honors fraternity.

Hometown:

Marion, Illinois

High School:

Marion High School

Current Employment:

I work at Baxter Street Bookstore as a note-taker for their student notes subsidiary. I am required to attend every session for my assigned class, then transfer all relevant test material from class meetings to Baxter’s computers so they can sell the material to students. In addition, I am a teaching assistant for ACCT 2102, and I teach baton twirling private lessons.

I chose to attend UGA because...

...I was recruited during my junior year of high school to be the feature twirler for the Redcoat Marching Band. Furthermore, I received the Ramsey Honors Scholarship, which pays for about 75 percent of my total cost of attendance.

My favorite things to do on campus are...

...play frisbee at the intramural fields, play intramural volleyball, and play pretty much any other sports at the Ramsey Center.

When I have free time, I like...

...to play cards and board games, spend time with my friends and fiancé, and watch movies.

The craziest thing I've done is...

...travel to Tokyo with one other friend while I was on study abroad trip to Japan. Neither one of us spoke any Japanese nor did we have a translator. We somehow managed to get on the right 8 hour overnight bus there and back. In addition, we toured eight of the nine regions in Tokyo over a period of three days, mastering the subway system. It was quite an experience to wander around a foreign country where you cannot even begin to make sense of the language.

My favorite place to study is...

...my bedroom because it is quiet, and my computer is there. I frequently use my computer for research.

My favorite professor is...

...Dan Smith because he is not only concerned about his students learning the material for the class, but he also helps us to use the course material to better ourselves outside the classroom—like in preparation for the C.P.A. exam after graduation!

If I knew I could not fail, I would...

...be a professional athlete because I love sports. My competitive drive always pushes me to do my best and hopefully win in the end. Due to some injuries, I have been unable to do anything of the sort. However, if I could not fail and be healthy all the time, I would find great joy in the professional athletic realm.

After graduation, I plan to...

...pass all four parts of the C.P.A. exam during the summer before starting work in the early fall for Deloitte, one of the “big four” accounting firms. After about five years, I will decide whether to stay and work up to partner or to switch to industry accounting with an international corporation and work up to becoming a corporate financial officer.

The one UGA experience I will always remember will be...

...my first football game and twirling performance at halftime in front of over 90,000 screaming fans. This happened during my senior year of high school when the band director flew me down to UGA for a guest performance as UGA’s next feature twirler.